By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas
If you are reading this issue, it means everything went well. This is usually the last piece to be written and be pasted on the file being laid out. Sometimes it is done as the article of Dr. Danilo Padua who does his piece while in his laboratory class that end at 5:00 p.m. at BSU. He used to be the dean of the College of Agriculture there.
At about the same time, the article of Dr. Penny Domogo would be finding its way through cyberspace. It would arrive in a minute or two, before or after.
In some instances, the article of Estanislao Albano Jr. would also announce its presence in our email inbox at about the same time.
And you will be surprised about synchronicity. I open these documents and I would be surprised at how the universe synchronizes things. For instance, I just finished writing the editorial and then opening the article of Dr. Domogo, I found out she wrote about the birth of Baby Jesus as I did.
Sometimes I would find out that our other columnists had used the same phrases I just used. But since these happen on the “dying seconds” before emailing the whole lay out to our “plate maker” out of town, there would be no time to alter things.
Anyway, I call it synchronicity.
But I digress. The point why I am writing about the last minute arrival of column stories, is our columnists are busy people having other regular jobs. And yet they can write articles worth publishing along the way.
The reason is they have something to write about, and have enough brains to readily put these in an article form in a few minutes. How is that possible?
It means they have learned enough through the years that they have something worthwhile to say. That burning the midnight oil to educate themselves has been a regular part of their lives.
The more disciplined amongst us are Anthony Araos who writes from Ifugao, and Dr. Tedler Depaynos. Their articles usually come in the day before or several hours before deadline.
The reason for Anthony Araos’ early of submission of his pieces is I think because he is in love with Ifugao that he appears to be always inspired to write on how things are going on there. Or perhaps he is in love with a beautiful lady there. When you are in that state, you are inspired to accomplish things no matter how dire or difficult the situation is. Whatever his circumstances, we are thankful Ifugao is often adequately represented in the pages of our issues through his pieces.
As to our surgeon, Dr. Tedler Depaynos, his early submission of his columns is reflective on how serious he treats his tasks whether or not he is being paid. And that is a very good thing. You would not like your surgeon to be operating on your heart or other major or critical organs having rushed only his preparation just a few minutes before such a life-saving event. For sure, he had prepared long and hard for many years as a surgeon that is why he is a respected one, and as a medical professor, hereabouts.
Why am I writing about us now? While I used to do this only during our anniversary issues which would be coming next month (our 21st), I wanted to do it now because I just realized how lucky we have been this year with our good columnists. After all, Christmas is also a time to reflect on how things had gone for almost a year.
Our columnists had been dishing out ideas (not plagiarized from the internet) that are very important in life—your life. If you never realized this reading our issues, then that is just so bad. Perhaps you just have to pray so hard you will be delivered from the dangers of ignorance.
Christmas time is the right time to do this.**
